Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by C. Terry Warner

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American author C. Terry Warner.
Last updated on April 15, 2025.
C. Terry Warner

C. Terry Warner is an American academic, author and business consultant. He co-wrote the business leadership book Leadership and Self-Deception and founded the Arbinger Institute, which does consulting and training based on his academic work on the foundations of human behavior and self-deception. In writings and seminars, Warner argues that people are responsible for their own actions and even negative emotions which are often used to accuse others rather than responding to their needs, and that people therefore have the power to free their relationships with others from negativity.

For to the extent that we act toward others as we feel we might, we open ourselves to their inner reality, and their needs and aspirations seem so important to us as our own. We hope their hopes will be fulfilled and need to see their needs satisfied. Their happiness makes us happy, and we are pained to see them hurt. We resonate with them and delight in their prosperity.
I too have learned this in my experiences with the Spirit of God. Every situation can be redeemed and turned into exactly the preparation we require for a fullness of joy-to the extent of ourfaith in Christ's redemptive power. To that extent, the very circumstances we may have cursed will turn out to be our schooling for salvation.
When we actively relate to people as rivals or enemies, we foster the false belief that we and they stand independent of one another. The truth is that we bind ourselves to them as if by an invisible tether, and we do so by our negative thoughts and feelings." "Who we are is who we are with others. How they seem to us is a revelation of ourselves.
Some things are only real because they represent what we think. When we learn the truth and think it, the old reality is no longer real to us and loses its hold on us. The truth sets us free.
Did I love what I was doing, or did I love myself in doing it?
There is a vast difference between living according to one's idea of what it is to be good, and actually being that way. — © C. Terry Warner
There is a vast difference between living according to one's idea of what it is to be good, and actually being that way.
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